Columbo!!

[flandry84]

Ah Colombo! The most socialist/proleterian American cop show ever.
Colombo,the shabby everyman in his pathethic little car,turning up to dispense justice to every rich wine tasting/art collecting/cravat wearing homicidal smoothie in LA.
Given what we know about LA justice though,methinks the "Lootenant" didn't secure all too many convictions.
I was saddened to learn that poor Mr.Falk is not in the best of health recently,such a shame.

 

[stoneroses]

Columbo is great. It is so sad about Peter Falk's alzheimer's disease. I wish the press woul leave him alone.
I got into Columbo in the eighties. If you like it you should read Crime and Punishment which as i am sure many know is where the character is taken from.
I wonder what his first name was if not Philip or Frank as speculated.

 

[Samurai8472]

I always stumble upon Dick Van Dyke's episode where he murdered his wife

 

[Servo]

I always stumble upon Dick Van Dyke's episode where he murdered his wife

Quality episode. One of the best, IMO. Van Dyke almost gets away with it too, but makes a mistake with the camera at the end.

I've been a Columbo fan for years. Absolutely love it. Got all the episodes, and I even own this t-shirt.

 

[Icemizer]

Columbo and Quincy two of my all time favorite shows. Falk and Klugman both terrific in these series. Sad though what has become of both. I would have loved at least one of the CSI shows to throw out a bone to Klugman and have him make a Quincy appearance, maybe as a professor who taught one of the leads in school.

 

[Zachary Smith]

I think someday we will see a son or grandson of Columbo, did he ever have kids through? Not that would ever stop them.

His name is Adrian Monk . . .

 

[cooleddie74]

I always stumble upon Dick Van Dyke's episode where he murdered his wife

Quality episode. One of the best, IMO. Van Dyke almost gets away with it too, but makes a mistake with the camera at the end.

I've been a Columbo fan for years. Absolutely love it. Got all the episodes, and I even own this t-shirt.

CLASSIC.

I love Van Dyke's barely restrained anger every time Columbo pops up in his photography studio or at his exhibit to ask more questions. Van Dyke has always been great at exuding frustration with a comic face.

 

[judge alba]

love the columbos got a lot of them on dvd hard to say what the best one was but i think the one with Patrick mcgoohan(sp?) the guy from the prisoner was a general or something in an academy

 

[cooleddie74]

love the columbos got a lot of them on dvd hard to say what the best one was but i think the one with Patrick mcgoohan(sp?) the guy from the prisoner was a general or something in an academy

That was the 1974 military academy episode that aired the week I was born(November). Always one of my top ten if not five. All the McGoohan ones are great...even the 1990s ABC episode where he is a funeral director who tries to hide a murder by cremating the body.

 

[Christopher]

All the McGoohan ones are great...even the 1990s ABC episode where he is a funeral director who tries to hide a murder by cremating the body.

Yeah, that was his last turn as a villain and his second-last as a director. It was pretty good, but I've always had one huge problem with it, namely the incredible stupidity of the victim, confronting the guy about her intent to expose his misdeeds while they were alone and in a room filled with dangerous metal objects. It was like she was inviting him to murder her.

 

[stoneroses]

love the columbos got a lot of them on dvd hard to say what the best one was but i think the one with Patrick mcgoohan(sp?) the guy from the prisoner was a general or something in an academy

I like that one the best of the four he was in. I am sure you know he directed five episodes and wrote two. He loved the show!

 

[tharpdevenport]

"Actually, there is ... one more thing..."

I love that. The look on the vallain's faces each time he says that and keeps coming back again & again.

And an episode with the recently departed Patrick McGoohan is one I especially love (but then again I always liked him as an actor).

 

[cooleddie74]

Jack Cassidy(David's and Sean's father) was also in three or four classic COLUMBOs, tying him with McGoohan for most appearances in the franchise. His best was the Magician one where he murders the boss who plans to tell the authorities he is an ex-SS Nazi camp guard guilty of war crimes.

 

[Christopher]

^^Jack Cassidy played three Columbo killers, which puts him in third place after McGoohan (two killers in the old series and two in the new) and Robert Culp (three killers in the old series and the father of a killer in the new series). However, there are multiple actors who had more appearances in the series, if not as killers. Bruce Kirby appeared eight times, four as Sgt. Kramer. Vito Scotti, J. P. Finnegan, and Falk's wife Shera Danese all appeared six times in various roles, with Danese twice playing a killer's accomplice, I believe.

 

[cooleddie74]

Forgot about Culp. Both Cassidy and Culp have appearances in Year 1 of the series if I'm not mistaken(Cassidy was in the first regular episode after the two pilot movies in 1968 and 1970, the one with the mystery writing team and Cassidy killing his partner).

 

[RobertScorpio]

Forgot about Culp. Both Cassidy and Culp have appearances in Year 1 of the series if I'm not mistaken(Cassidy was in the first regular episode after the two pilot movies in 1968 and 1970, the one with the mystery writing team and Cassidy killing his partner).

You seem like a COLUMBO expert, both you and Chris. What are your favorite episodes that stand-out?

Rob

 

[cooleddie74]

Forgot about Culp. Both Cassidy and Culp have appearances in Year 1 of the series if I'm not mistaken(Cassidy was in the first regular episode after the two pilot movies in 1968 and 1970, the one with the mystery writing team and Cassidy killing his partner).

You seem like a COLUMBO expert, both you and Chris. What are your favorite episodes that stand-out?

Rob

The original 1968 movie(pilot)with Gene Barry.

The Roddy McDowall episode set in the chemical plant and using the exploding cigars.

The McGoohan one in the military academy.

The Johnny Cash one where you feel so much sympathy for his killer at the end of the episode.

 

[RJDiogenes]

I love Columbo, and I have all the DVDs; just picked up the latest set a couple of weeks ago (I've been watching since he was part of that rotating Mystery Movie format back in the early 70s). He had great chemistry with a lot of his "guest killers," like Robert Culp and Patrick McGoohan. Definitely one of the best detective shows of all time.

 

[cooleddie74]

The final episode in the original 1970s NBC run was the one with Clive Revill as the Northern Irish poet/author-turned-terror supporter who was helping to smuggle illegal arms to the IRA from a ship docked in Los Angeles. Revill was the actor who provided the original voice of Emperor Palpatine in the first 1980 incarnation of THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK and later went on to play the Sheriff of Nottingham or another illusory character in "QPid(TNG)" eleven years later.

 

[RobertScorpio]

The final episode in the original 1970s NBC run was the one with Clive Revill as the Northern Irish poet/author-turned-terror supporter who was helping to smuggle illegal arms to the IRA from a ship docked in Los Angeles. Revill was the actor who provided the original voice of Emperor Palpatine in the first 1980 incarnation of THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK and later went on to play the Sheriff of Nottingham or another illusory character in "QPid(TNG)" eleven years later.

Okay..so what is the complete list of TREK vetrans on that show??

Shatner--Nimoy--Koenig--Revill--The female Romulan Commander from ENTERPRISE INCIDENT--hmmmmm..a little help here!!!

Rob